Well, Katerina's parents and her Czech friends speak to her in Czech, and she understands, but she can't respond, she just responds in English. Its really weird and frustrating when your trying to learn it!!! She can barely read (very slow, I'm actually better than her at reading Czech).

She can watch Czech movies without subtitles and understand everything and tell me what's going on, but she couldn't "repeat that line?" if you asked her a million times... lol.

I guess she's a very peculiar case. Basically I make up sentences and say them to her and she nods or shakes her head no, then I try again. Since she can't actually correct me, she just says if its right or wrong.

It is also quite sad, especially because she has such a beautiful czech name. Well, at least there is something good for your learning. And if you can practice speaking Czech with her parents or friends, it is no big deal.

Divinefairy wrote:Jako jsem řekl, za šest měsíců poletíme do Prahy na dovolenou. Mužete mi říct ktery místá nikdo nemluví anglicky?As I said, in six months we will be flying to Prague for vacation. Can you tell me any places where no one speaks English?

Well, few years ago it was much worse with English, now you can meet more people, that can speak intelligibly. But especially older people is your best choice for Czech only conversation. And of course, smaller and more secluded places are better than the capital city.

The recording was nice. The voice somehow reminded me of a certain fairytale teller, but I can't recall the name

I can only advise you to work on how to prolong the vowels with acute accents such as lidé, práv, nadáni, others were fine. And then in the last word bratrství the r somehow vanished in your recording But I liked it. Good job (Sorry I didn't respond earlier )

The recording was nice. The voice somehow reminded me of a certain fairytale teller, but I can't recall the name

I can only advise you to work on how to prolong the vowels with acute accents such as lidé, práv, nadáni, others were fine. And then in the last word bratrství the r somehow vanished in your recording But I liked it. Good job (Sorry I didn't respond earlier )

Thank you I'm quite surprised that I sound good, really, it's quite hard to make unstressed vowels long. I pronounced bratrství in Russian way, without second R, my mistake... Learning another Slavic language is a great challenge, because all the time you switch to your native language bearing in mind "they will understand it anyway"...

I know fraternity and brotherhood is the same thing (sisterhood = sorority, royal = kingly) but I was asking if брудршафт is something different than brotherhood, because she pronounced the Czech word for it bratrství in a similar way to the Russian word братство = brotherhood.

this word is not used alone AFAIK, there's an expression "пить на брудершафт" [pit' na brudershaft] - it means that you and your new friend show everyone and yourself (it can be done in romantic atmosphere) that you are friends now and if you're in love, you kiss each other after that.